Sanguo: Banzi Shengtian, you call him Yanque?

Chapter 33 Night attack on Jingzhou! ! !

Xu Shu has been silent since he returned to Cao Cao's camp and never gave Cao Cao any advice. He was in Cao Cao's camp and his heart was with Han, so he also lost Cao Cao's trust.

Although he was asked to come to Jingzhou with the army, he was only asked to handle simple military affairs, and he was never called upon to do other things.

On the one hand, Cao Cao was worried that Xu Shu would be a threat to Liu Bei if he returned to his side, so it was still cost-effective to keep Xu Shu in vain.

On the other hand, Xu Shu had real talent and learning, and Cao Cao also thought that one day Xu Shu would change his mind and work for Cao Cao.

After entering Jiangxia with Cao Cao, Xu Shu had no access to any confidential military affairs and knew nothing about Cao Cao's arrangements. He liked to go out alone in his free time.

But I didn't expect that when I was wandering around that day, I suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Although it was just a silhouette, he was almost sure of the person's identity.

"Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan!"

Xu Shu exclaimed and quickly chased after him.

When he was studying under Sima Hui, Pang Tong was ignored because of his short stature and ugly appearance. Even though Sima Hui recognized Pang Tong's talent, he favored Zhuge Liang.

Even so, he was still able to win the title of "Feng Chu" in the end, which shows how talented Pang Tong is.

The figure disappeared after turning a corner. When Xu Shu chased after him, he could no longer find it.

"Why did Pang Tong appear here?"

Xu Shu was a little surprised. After all, after graduating from Sima Hui, the senior brothers all went their separate ways. Some returned to their family's hometown, and some wandered around. Pang Tong belonged to the latter.

"Pang Tong is a great talent. Now that Zhuge Liang has stayed with Liu Bei, if another Pang Tong is added, he will definitely be able to fight against Cao Cao!"

Although he did not have access to confidential military affairs, Xu Shu could also know that Liu Bei's current situation was already on the verge of destruction.

At first, he thought that Zhuge Liang could help Liu Bei rise, so he tried his best to recommend Zhuge to Liu Bei. However, he did not expect that the situation would not be as good as when he was there.

"Alas, Liu Bei was also born at the wrong time, which is really disappointing."

Xu Shu sighed and hurried back to his residence.

The appearance of Pang Tong gave him hope that he might be able to help Liu Bei get out of his current predicament, so he wrote a secret letter stating that Pang Tong appeared in Jiangxia and detailed Pang Tong's talents.

Then, he sent his confidants to deliver the secret message to Liu Bei.

Xu Shu sighed slowly: "Whether you can seize this opportunity depends on Liu Bei's luck!"

Of course, Cao Cao didn't know about Pang Tong. His attention was all on Xiliang and Jiangdong at this time, and he was eagerly waiting for the news from these two sides.

But in the past few days, although the spies from Jiangdong sent back news every day, they said that there had been no changes in the Jiangdong Navy and that Zhou Yu was also very calm.

"It shouldn't be. Ye Fan's guesses have always been very accurate, but for several days in a row, there has been no movement in Jiangdong?"

Cao Cao frowned deeply, feeling that something must be wrong.

Soon, he stood up suddenly and shouted sternly: "Send a message to General Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao quickly to see you!"

At this time, he had already guessed Zhou Yu's movements.

When Cao Jun made a surprise attack on Jiangdong Water Village, he first checked all the spies and blocked the news, so Jiangdong's spies were unable to pass on the news. And this time, although their spies seemed to be unimpeded in delivering the news, this was definitely Zhou Yu's trick!
  Zhou Yu knew that if he blocked the spies' information, Cao Cao would definitely notice something, so on the one hand, he paralyzed the spies, and on the other hand, he acted secretly.

The facts are just as Cao Cao guessed, Zhou Yu did take action.

The Jiangdong army was practicing on the river as always, but in fact only a small number of troops were left on most of the warships, and those naval forces were sent out by him!

"Gong Jin, I believe this trick will make Cao Cao unable to guard against it!"

Lu Su and Zhou Yu stood by the river, looking at the army that set off at night. Lu Su said with great admiration.

Zhou Yu was in high spirits, and his robes rustled in the night wind.

"Hmph, Cao Cao's army went to Dongting Lake to practice. The defenders in Jingzhou must be very empty now. Moreover, they attacked our water stronghold before, resulting in the destruction of our 20,000 strong force. Cao Cao's army must have thought that we dare not invade Jingzhou again!"

"But I did the opposite!"

This is his plan, to attack Jingzhou!

He was fully prepared for this moment and was confident that nothing would go wrong.

In the dark night, a large number of warships rushed towards Jingzhou. The warships carried 20,000 Jiangdong naval forces. Standing on the front warship was none other than Jiangdong's general Gan Ning!

Gan Ning once served as Liu Biao's subordinate, but he saw that Liu Biao was not a man of big things, so he left Liu Biao and went to Sun Quan.

Moreover, his ancestral home was Nanyang in Jingzhou, and he was very familiar with the environment and terrain of Jingzhou. It was precisely because of this that Zhou Yu asked Gan Ning to be the main general in this sneak attack on Jingzhou.

"Hmph, old thief Cao Cao, your grandpa Gan Ning is here!"

There was no light on the dark river surface, but a large number of warships came along the river. When it was close to dawn, they disembarked from the ferry. The remaining troops were quickly killed by them before they could react.

"Haha, Cao Cao was so careless. Even there were only so few troops left at the ferry. He really didn't take Jiangdong seriously."

"Brothers, today is the time to make great achievements. Before Cao Jun can react, join me in killing the enemy!"

Gan Ning was full of courage, and with a sudden wave of the sword in his hand, Jiangdong's army rushed towards Jingzhou. They wanted to kill Cao's army as much as possible and plunder the territory.

By this time, victory was already within reach, so Gan Ning had no doubt at all. He felt that the lack of defense here was due to Cao Cao's carelessness and Zhou Yu's clever plan.

It was dawn soon after, and they encountered several small groups of Cao's troops along the way, but they were easily defeated by them without any decent resistance, allowing them to go more than ten miles deep into Jingzhou.

"Something's not right..."

Gan Ning finally noticed something at this time. No matter how lax Cao Jun was, they would not be able to let them charge so far with their soul power!

Suddenly, he felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, and his previous excitement was directly extinguished.

"stop!"

He quickly issued an order to stop the army.

Soon, the small stones on the ground trembled slightly, as if thousands of troops were galloping.

Gan Ning quickly looked to both sides and saw densely packed cavalry charging towards them on the high slopes on both sides.

(End of this chapter)